One of the apes escaped from Seoul's national zoo...

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Family Picture! So perfect ^^

Sogang Deihakyu during the day (taken while I headed to Daegu)

We got really bored while waiting for a "kankoku-jin"

The Myeung Dong BABO Statue. It is a very famous piece of art in Korea...

Going up

As a newbie to snowboarding, the best strategy to learning is to go to the most difficult peak in the whole ski resort...

6 people went to go pick Haehyun up from the port. ninki takusan aru ne!

BATMAN. My mouth was wide open when I saw him go out of the ski resort.

Later I will have video links~

While I was in Korea, I took too many pictures and so here they are. The oldest picture (since I came to Korea) is at the very bottom and the newest one is near the top.

I noticed many cultural and behavioral differences from that of Japan. Here are some examples:

Walking on the streets is very scary because the drivers do not consider people and only look for the green light. Pedestrians take extra precautions in this country. Even walking on the sidewalk is somewhat dangerous, as motorcycles are allowed to drive on them!

Koreans are not as polite as the Japanese. One of my friends jokingly replied that "it means the Koreans are 'normal' people unlike the Japanese" in accordance with the attitude of a regular person.

Many elderly people on the other hand are kinder than those found in Japan.

Older people in Korea (seldom the youth) tend to brag about various things.

Japanese service>>Korean service

There are many Koreans that speak Japanese and there are also many Japanese tourists in this country because the two are so close. Furthermore most vendors speak enough Japanese to sell their goods. Also everywhere I go there are people I don't know speaking Japanese (in every city I went to, all around the cities).

Many middle school kids hang out at the subway stations and are very rude.

Koreans use steel bowls, cups, and chopsticks! The chopsticks were so heavy that there needs to be an "Adjusting to Korean Chopsticks" class.

ENJOY the pictures, as much as I enjoyed posting them up!

The greatest kimchi ever made, and by Ho Song's mom to be exact. Thank you! Hontou ni arigatou. 

Korean Pepsi (written in Hangul). Taejin joked that Pepsi was from Korea, because of the logo. 

In the back there was a duty free shop right before we got on the ferry. Prices were around 3x (san bai) as expensive than normal ones. You could buy a box of ginsing for 1000000W (about 1000 USD)! ... 

Yon-sama depaato ferry ticket. "Lotte de aimashou!" Let's meet at Lotte! As you can see in the background, we had a ton of luggage and made us exhuasted lugging around. 

We left our nimotsu at Haehyun's place at the Metro Palace. You can see I bought very cheap Shin ramen here. (P.S. She just woke up recently and didn't do her hair, so she tried to dodge the picture). Look at Taz on the right-hand side there. 

Koreans are very smart, putting their address numbers on their buildings. Also their street signs make sense and make the roads easy to navigate. All of these apartment complexes (also like those in Japan) remind me of Neon Genesis Evangelion's cities that can fold underground. 

This is the room we slept in while staying in Taejin's house. His family was very kind as well. All the Korean families' houses we stayed at were very kind to Vas and me. 

Taejin's house (his room specifically). We looked at many pictures and listened to many Japanese songs here. 

Japanese manga! More expensive than Japan, but less expensive than the US. 

I'm looking at a Korean cookbook, published in English. This is actually the English book section for Korean culture. 

Rowdy Korean kids learning the ways of sitting & browsing already early in their lives. It's already so late, so the kids aren't running around at this time. But they are still active. I was thinking about buying a Hangul book meant for little kids. I wonder what the literacy rate of Koreans is; probably close to that of Japan because Hangul is also a very good system. 

This reminds me of my local bookstore because it also has a Starbucks Coffee shop in there.

The biggest book store in Daegu. It's about the size of Junkudo (maybe a little smaller) where people sit down and read books. In Japan, this is not accepted. Nope, definitely not. Kneeling? Sitting?! What if someone needs a book behind you. What if they step on you? 

This is the place at the bus stop in Cheongdo. You can apparently rent these rooms at the top floor of these buildings for "MT." Instead of standing for mountain, it stands for Members Training (silly Konglish), where people just gather together to have fun for a night. It costs about 10000W (about 10 USD) per person, and people usually drink all night and bring their own food to cook while having a blast. 

"Unmonsa" - cloudy gate temple - where all the monks are women. They are apparently engineers by second trade. They can even fix vending machines blindfolded. 

This is me trying to be a turtle. kame tur tur... 

We reached Cheongdo, a very serene place with not much there besides woods, mountains, and nature. I really liked it, even though it was freezing cold that day. Look at that master hugger. 

This is the greatest bus driver seat in the world (I think only in an Eastern country would I eve see such a thing). As for right now in this picture, we are headed to a temple right now. On this bus were the monks from the temples; they wore traditional garments, had their heads shaved, believed in Bhudda, watched movies on their mini portable-DVD player, drank pop, and ate lots of junk food. 

This is an add to catch those crazy kita jyousen (N. Korean) spies. As long as these posters are up, the old hatred will never die down I think. I found this ad to be very funny though because of the telephone strength bar. Just call "111"and report a spy today!

These crackers are so great. The motto for this crack is also so great. "Feel it. Enjoy it and fall in love with it." 

From here on out we met Taejin. At this restaurant we ate "he jong kuk," my favorite Korean food! First you eat the beef rib inside the soup, and then you take the bones out. After that you put the rice in and then drink the soup like pourage. So good!!!!!! There is another version with a different name, but the only difference is that it has potatoes in it. I think it means "good for the soul" or something like that.